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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 26 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HYADES (" the rainy ones ")

HYADES (" the See also:
RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)
rainy ones ") , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the daughters of See also:

ATLAS

Atlas and Aethra; their number varies between two and seven. As a See also:

REWARD

reward for having brought up See also:

ZEUS

Zeus at See also:

DODONA

Dodona and taken care of the See also:

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus Hyes, whom they conveyed to Ino (See also:

SISTER

sister of his See also:

MOTHER

mother See also:

SEMELE

Semele) at See also:

Thebes when his See also:

LIFE

life was threatened by See also:

Lycurgus, they were translated to See also:

HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

heaven and placed among the stars (See also:

Hyginus, Poet. astron. ii. 21). Another See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

story combines them with the See also:

Pleiades. According to this they were twelve (or fifteen) sisters, whose See also:

BROTHER

brother Hyas was killed by a snake while See also:

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting in See also:

LIBYA

Libya (See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

FASTI

Fasti, v. 165; Hyginus, Fab. 192). They lamented him so bitterly that Zeus, out of compassion, changed them into stars—five into the Hyades, at the See also:

head of the See also:

CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; co'n, with, and Stella, a star)

constellation of the See also:

Bull, the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder into the Pleiades. Their name is derived from the fact that the rainy See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season commenced when they See also:

rose at the same See also:

time as the See also:

sun (May 7–21); the See also:

ORIGINAL

original conception of them is that of the fertilizing principle of moisture. The See also:

Romans derived the name from us (See also:

pig), and translated it by Suculae (See also:

CICERO

Cicero, De nat. deorum, ii.

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